Root

غ-ل-ظ

ghlẓ·gh-l-z9

13 occurrences13 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غَلِيظghalīẓ9
اغْلُظْāghluẓ2
غِلْظَةghilẓah1
اسْتَغْلَظَāstaghlaẓa1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on غ-ل-ظ

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • اغْلُظْāghluẓ2
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَغْلَظَāstaghlaẓa1

Covers 3 of this root’s 13 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with غ-ل-ظ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where غ-ل-ظ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ل-ظ occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 13 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 155 pages — pages 258412, juzʾ 1321.

Occurrences · 13 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root غ-ل-ظ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ل-ظ (ghlẓ) occurs 13 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 13 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does غ-ل-ظ occur?

13 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ل-ظ (ghlẓ), out of 13 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ل-ظ?

غ-ل-ظ (ghlẓ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غَلِيظ (ghalīẓ, 9×), اغْلُظْ (āghluẓ, 2×), غِلْظَة (ghilẓah, 1×), and اسْتَغْلَظَ (āstaghlaẓa, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.